Andy Palmer is a business coach, with experience in working with all levels of an organisation from the board/C-level, to the people building the product. He is skilled in developing software, coaching, and testing; with experience across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, investment banking, retail and media. Andy was inspired by the Agile Manifesto in 2002, and since then has applied agile principles and practices wherever applicable. Andy was previously a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks and has several years experience working with high-availability systems for the mobile telecommunications industry.In March 2009, he co-founded Pair With Us with Antony Marcano. This successful partnership led to the formation of RiverGlide in June 2009, to make their unique flavour of energy and motivation available to companies that share in their values (transparency, integrity, trust) and benefit from their ability to continuously innovate and deliver.As a coach; Andy has substantial experience in helping organisations to define and refine their strategic goals, as well as helping teams benefit tactically from better testing and cleaner, well crafted, easy to read and maintain code.As a passionate programmer; Andy is continuously developing his craft, writing code in Ruby, Java, .Net, Perl and more.Specialties: Strategic identification of the problem domain, Crafting small experiments to work towards well-defined outcomes, Sustainable and context-driven organisational change, Software troubleshooting, Programming, UNIX and Windows System Administration, Network Security